21 May 2012
Environmental and funding expertise of Burges Salmon helps secure 500kW on-farm anaerobic digestion (AD) facility.
21 May 2012
Burges Salmon’s head of renewables, Ross Fairley, takes part in an influential debate for the marine sector this week as part of one of the UK’s largest renewable energy events, All Energy.
24 April 2012
The renewable energy team at Burges Salmon has advised the owners of a 500kW wind turbine project in the Forest of Dean on an innovative fundraising, which is the first of its kind in the UK.
28 March 2012
Lawyers from the Burges Salmon Energy and Environment team provide an update on the RHI.
15 March 2012
Burges Salmon's Head of Renewable Energy, Ross Fairley was a speaker at RenewableUK's 9th Wave & Tidal conference in Edinburgh, sponsored by The Crown Estate.
23 January 2012
The South West has today been named as the UK’s first Marine Energy Park, firmly placing the region on the international map for leadership in marine renewable energy.
11 November 2011
Leading UK law firm Burges Salmon has been named ‘Adviser of the Year: Legal and Financial’ in the inaugural Renewable Energy Infrastructure Awards.
21 September 2011
A multi-disciplinary team representing the best of Burges Salmon's construction, planning, procurement, real estate, project finance and regulation expertise has been shortlisted for the national Renewable Energy Infrastructure Awards 2011.
20 June 2011
DECC and Defra have published their Anaerobic Digestion Strategy and Action Plan. It came about after extensive discussions with more than 50 organisations including AD technology providers, food waste producers, academia, power & water utilities, local & national government and trade associations.
21 April 2011
An award-winning legal team from Burges Salmon has advised on a landmark renewable energy scheme which will significantly reduce the carbon footprint of whisky production in Scotland.
18 March 2011
Top 50 UK law firm Burges Salmon has appointed four new partners from a range of practice areas across the firm. These appointments will bring the total number of partners to 69. They take effect from 1 May, 2011.
15 December 2010
The imminent approval of the first UK AD plant under the PAS110 scheme will be a positive move for the AD sector, with classification of digestate as a product rather than a waste opening up improved financial opportunities to the sector
15 December 2010
News that two UK AD facilities have successfully linked to the National Gas Grid as part of the biomethane demonstration projects announced earlier this year signals another positive step for the AD sector
15 December 2010
The securing of a £2.1m loan by Farmgen for its AD plant based on income from energy generated rather than asset-based security is a step forward for the sector, signalling recognition that AD projects can be seen as a secure investment for financial institutions
15 December 2010
Publication by Defra in November of its paper ‘Developing an Anaerobic Digestion (AD) Framework’, which builds on the Implementation Plan published in March 2010, has underlined the Government’s continued support for AD.
18 August 2010
The Coalition Government plans to implement ‘a huge increase in waste to energy through anaerobic digestion’ by November 2010
18 August 2010
The European Commission has recently approved the Publicly Available Specification for digestate, creating an industry specification against which producers can verify that the digestate they produce is of consistent quality and is fit for purpose.
18 August 2010
Tesco's new distribution centre at Widnes is to be powered completely by renewable energy derived from food waste thanks to a new sustainability partnership with transport company Stobart Group and food waste recycling experts PDM Group.
18 August 2010
Following a lengthy review by Defra, a new regime came into force on 6 April 2010 which has made minor changes to existing small scale waste permitting exemptions.
18 August 2010
In June, the European Commission laid down the steps required to improve EU bio-waste management and take advantage of the significant environmental and economic benefits that this resource can provide.
11 August 2010
Burges Salmon team has advised BiogenGreenfinch, the UK's leading operator of Anaerobic Digestion food waste plants.
15 July 2010
Our award-winning energy lawyers have advised wind farm developers Infinergy on two of its onshore wind farms.
08 June 2010
We have advised Irish state-owned utility ESB on its acquisition of the Mynydd y Betws wind farm project.
25 March 2010
On 25 March 2010, Defra published an Implementation Plan for the delivery of the recommendations of the Government's AD Task Group to accelerate the public and private sectors' uptake of anaerobic digestion in England.
01 March 2010
The Department of Energy and Climate Change has published guidance to inform AD operators of the legal, technical and regulatory requirements of injecting renewable gas into the gas grid.
01 March 2010
The Department of Energy and Climate Change has announced plans to provide financial support for AD projects through feed in tariffs and the "world's first" renewable heat incentive scheme.
01 March 2010
Newcastle University has been given the green light to go ahead with plans to run an innovative AD project which is intended to encourage the development and uptake of AD technology in a bid to improve the sustainability of farms throughout the UK.
02 February 2010
Ecotricity has announced plans to provide homeowners with the option to pay for a 'green' gas supply from January 2010.
02 February 2010
An overview of how the UK Government supported the development of Anaerobic Digestion in 2009.
02 February 2010
The UK's biggest biogas facility has been granted planning permission.
02 February 2010
On 19 November Staffordshire county council granted Biffa planning permission a 4MW facility at Polars, Cannock, Staffs.
02 February 2010
Planning officers have recommended that the plans of a Suffolk brewery to build an anaerobic plant next door to its distribution centre should be approved.
02 February 2010
Construction on a 190 kWe biogas plant in Herefordshire is planned to start in spring 2010.
02 February 2010
Planners have given the green light for Blackpool-based AD specialist Farmgen to start work on a £2.5million 800kW AD plant.
24 November 2009
On 10 November 2009 Ed Miliband released the first six National Policy Statements on Energy, which are designed to guide the decision making process of the Infrastructure Planning Commission established under the Planning Act 2008. Click on the link to read more.
24 November 2009
Using powers in the 2008 Energy Act, the Government is about to introduce a new incentive scheme in April 2010 to encourage the greater deployment of small-scale renewable electricity. Click on the link to read more.
24 November 2009
The introduction of banding in the Renewables Obligation from April 2009 has created huge interest in the biomass power sector. Click on the link to read more.
24 November 2009
Rapid progress has been achieved in addressing many of the legal obstacles to deployment of Carbon Capture and Storage, but there are still real practical difficulties in the way of this key technology. Click on the link to read more.
11 August 2009
We advised Garrad Hassan (GH) on a merger with Germanischer-Lloyd.
24 June 2009
We have been named Infrastructure/Energy Team of the Year in The Lawyer Awards 2009. We're really pleased with this achievement, especially as this is the first year the award has been given. This recognises the hard work put in across the firm, as people in every area have helped over recent years.